Posted on July 16, 2008 by Anne-Marie
So back in April, gg at Skulls in the Stars challenged science bloggers across the disciplines to read and research some classic article in their discipline, and then write a blog post about it. The results are in, and they’re awesome. Not just fascinating - this is a potential time suck (with none of the [...]
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Posted on July 8, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Last week, Female Science Professor wrote a lovely pair of posts about scholars and scholarship, what it feels like when your work has an impact on someone and what it feels like to meet the people who have influenced you in that particular undefinable way where it’s hard to even express what they’ve meant to [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Kate and I are still buzzing from the great conversation we had with the people who came to our session at LOEX of the West. It’s always an amazing and kind of surreal experience when you find out that other people are excited by the same ideas you are.
And it seems that other people [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2008 by Anne-Marie
So my Facebook friends, and my other friends, and the people in the cubicles next to me, and, well, anyone who has ever heard me speak knows that I’m not a big fan of the Blackboard learning management system. Despite having some good interactions over email with Karen Gage and the group of people [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2008 by Anne-Marie
all the time. That’s because Kate and I are deep in preparation for our Loex of the West talk and it’s hard to think about anything else. A few things that have come out of my work in the last few days.
This video at Kairos - This is Scholarship –
This video cuts across a lot [...]
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Posted on May 21, 2008 by Anne-Marie
This presentation from last week’s JSTOR Annual Publishers Meeting, examining how digital access to information has affected scholars’ research patterns, is very interesting. Meredith Quinn presented some research from Ithaka that looks at some of those disciplinary differences in research practice that I think most of us intuitively feel are there.
What a difference a [...]
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Posted on May 12, 2008 by Anne-Marie
at least in my head. My head is tired, though, from speaking at this and at this. So I may not be making any sense.
Last week before I got sucked into preparing stuff I had a brief exchange about peer review with John Daly on the K4D blog and he said something that resonated but [...]
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Posted on May 2, 2008 by Anne-Marie
There’s an interesting conversation going on at Historiann’s blog about peer review. It’s especially interesting to librarians I think as a peek behind the curtain of academic publishing - at least a glimpse of what it’s like in certain disciplines.
I have always wondered how closely my experiences writing in the peer-reviewed library science literature match [...]
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Posted on April 11, 2008 by Anne-Marie
This is more of a pointing something out post than an in-depth analysis post. I don’t know that I have much to say about this article in yesterday’s L.A. Times, that Jon Wiener didn’t already say in The Nation yesterday evening. But I can’t stop being bothered by it.
No matter how many times [...]
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Posted on April 3, 2008 by Anne-Marie
I don’t know that I have anything really insightful to say about this example of scholarship on the read/write web, but when I clicked over to HNN’s Highlights from the 2008 OAH Convention this morning I didn’t have high expectations.
(For non-historians, OAH = Organization of American Historians. This is one of the two main [...]
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